Trends in Journalism
by Sebastian Horn
1. New storytelling formats
1.1. Snowfall-like projects
1.2. Listicals
2. Atomisation of content
2.1. Journalism as structured data
2.2. Creating, searching, presenting, consuming this data?
3. Data journalism
3.1. Data visualisations
3.2. (Crowd-) source your own data
3.3. Standard tools and practices
3.4. Data journalism on mobile devices
4. Computational journalism
5. Responsive design
5.1. More devices, more screen sizes
5.2. Single column layout
5.3. Context-sensitive content
5.3.1. Location
5.3.2. Daytime
5.4. Mobile content creation
5.5. Responsive ads
6. Slow journalism
6.1. Long reads
6.2. Re-bundling content into magazines, ebooks
7. Real-time reporting
7.1. Live news reporting and gathering from various sources
7.2. Combine real-time with summaries, context, analysis
8. New data and content sources
8.1. Sensor networks
8.2. Internet of Things
8.3. Big Data
8.4. Drones
8.5. Google Glass
9. Revenues
9.1. Paywall models
9.1.1. Hard paywall
9.1.2. Metered paywall
9.1.3. Premium content
9.1.4. Print/online bundling
9.2. Sponsored content
9.3. Re-bundling of content
9.4. Real-time bidding on ads
9.5. Events and conferences
9.6. Grow globally or locally
9.7. Subsidies from non-journalism business
9.8. Foundation or donor funding
10. Content platforms
10.1. Networks of external contributors
10.2. "Platishers" (Platform + Publisher)
10.3. Content syndication via feeds and APIs
11. Community engagement
11.1. Social Media
11.1.1. Shareable content
11.1.2. Sharing features
11.1.3. Social media monitoring